
The 1000th specimen of the world’s largest and most cryptic fish, the whale shark, has been identified thanks to global efforts by hundreds of ‘citizen scientists’ and eco-tourists. ECOCEAN, the group behind a unique, award-winning* conservation effort to save the world’s threatened whale sharks, today announced the identification of the 1000th identified whale shark in [...]
November 26, 2007 | Posted in
Marine Science |
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THE coronial inquest into the death of honeymooning scuba diver Tina Watson was told yesterday it would be “very easy” to kill an inexperienced diver underwater. Barrister Damien Atkinson, representing dive operator Mike Ball Expeditions, posed the scenario in cross-examining dive instructor Wade Singleton.
Mr Singleton, now an ambulance paramedic, was the trip director on the [...]
November 24, 2007 | Posted in
Dive Safety |
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Lionel “Buster” Crabb, the ex-Navy diver who slipped into the waters off Portsmouth 51 Aprils ago and was never seen alive again, resurfaced yesterday with the usual froth of hot air. Known to have been poking about the hull of the Russian warship Ordzhonikidze that brought Soviet President Nikita Krushchev to Britain, his body was [...]
November 17, 2007 | Posted in
Editorial |
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A Rhode Island dive shop owner is facing extradition to the British Virgin Islands, where he is accused of killing his wife during a scuba diving trip in 1999. more stories like this US marshals arrested David Swain yesterday at his business in Jamestown, then brought him handcuffed and shackled into federal court in Providence [...]
November 16, 2007 | Posted in
Scuba Industry |
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A land of magnificent World Heritage sites and a thousand tourist clichés, Egypt was enticing visitors for millennia before Thomas Cook first steamed up the Nile. It was in Egypt that the Holy Family sheltered and Mark Antony flirted. Napoleon stopped long enough to pilfer a few obelisks, and the British stayed around to get [...]
November 14, 2007 | Posted in
Scuba Travel |
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When Battle Ground’s Mike and Brenda Dobbs booked a two-week vacation to go scuba diving in the waters around Belize, they expected to be amazed by the underwater views. It turned out the most shocking thing they saw was above the waterline.
Just three days into the trip, the Dobbses were among 22 passengers and crew [...]
November 13, 2007 | Posted in
Dive Safety |
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Students, faculty and staff who are interested in learning more about the health of marine ecosystems–particularly coral reefs–and those who want to learn about how scientists conduct research while living underwater will soon have a unique opportunity. Art Trembanis, UD assistant professor of geological science, is hosting a live question-and-answer session with aquanauts aboard an [...]
November 12, 2007 | Posted in
Marine Science |
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Jamaica is being considered a possible site for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Underwater Cultural Heritage Regional Centre. Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia Grange, told JIS News that Jamaica is at the “top of the list” of countries to host the regional centre, which will serve the Caribbean [...]
November 8, 2007 | Posted in
Scuba Travel |
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By Jon Kranhouse
Growing up in Southern California in the early 60’s, listening to the Beach Boys… it was inevitable that I would become a “water baby.” Mom introduced me to swimming when I was three, and I started ocean-snorkeling by eight. At the Emerald Bay Boy Scout camp on Catalina Island, 12year-old kids could go [...]
November 4, 2007 | Posted in
Scuba Products |
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